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That cloud is a clear and present threat to the lives, livelihoods and health of every person on the planet, now and in the future.

Emphasis added. Grant money is the only thing this guy is worried about.

By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.
--Paul R. Ehrlich

In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.
-- Paul R. Ehrlich

"It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,"
-- Denis Hayes, Chief organizer for Earth Day [1970]

[One] theory assumes that the earth's cloud cover will continue to thicken as more dust, fumes, and water vapor are belched into the atmosphere by industrial smokestacks and jet planes. Screened from the sun's heat, the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born."
— Newsweek [1970]

"The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age."
— Kenneth Watt